Free School Holiday Kids’ Activities

Jump into the fun at Te Papa this school holidays – see the emergency services in action, create a balloon animal, watch a heart-warming play, and much more! These family-friendly events are for children accompanied by adults.

Mon 2 Oct 2017, 10:30am–Fri 13 Oct 2017, 1:30pm

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Writers on Mondays: Short Sharp Script 2

More exciting work in progress from the second group of IIML scriptwriters, at Circa Theatre. This week: Ricky Dey, Ricardo Giraldo, Sarah Harpur, Sarita So, and Jonathan Watt. Introduced by Ken Duncum.

Mon 2 Oct 2017, 12:15–1:15pm

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Holiday Learning Programme: Smart Art – Create and Animate

Create a weird and wonderful fantasy costume for a figure, and bring it to life using stop-motion animation. Then design a garment on a life-sized mannequin in virtual reality.

Zumba for Kids

Get ready to get your swag on as you take part in the biggest Zumba® Kids dance party Welly has ever seen!

Wed 11 Oct 2017, 10:30–11:15am

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Peter Turner Memorial Lecture: Rosanna Raymond

Hear Rosanna Raymond deliver this year’s Peter Turner Memorial Lecture, a subjective (re)collection of 25 years working with photography in the urban Pacific landscape of Aotearoa from the ’90s to the present.

A spirited love story between two passionate baseball fans who are supporters of different teams. Will the rivalry between their teams keep them apart?

Sat 21 Oct 2017, 11:00am–1:00pm

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Latin America & Spain Film Festival: Alba

This multi-award winning film follows Alba, a painfully shy 11-year-old girl, as she faces the struggles of adolescence and building a relationship with the father she hardly knew.

Sat 21 Oct 2017, 2:00–3:30pm

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Latin America & Spain Film Festival: No Filter

Downtrodden doormat Pía sees an acupuncturist who uses traditional Chinese technique to remove her filter. She is left with no choice but to say everything she thinks.

Sat 21 Oct 2017, 4:00–6:00pm

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Latin America & Spain Film Festival: The Beginning of Time

Antonia and Bertha are left with no pension after a financial crisis. Faced with selling their belongings, their grandson who they haven’t seen in 10 years pays an unexpected visit.

Sun 22 Oct 2017, 11:00am–1:00pm

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Latin America & Spain Film Festival: Promenade Women (Rambleras)

A single girl, scared of being alone, a woman whose man is still attached to his ex-wife, and an old lady who has nobody, learn from each other about life’s ups and downs. Intimate and humorous.

Sun 22 Oct 2017, 2:00–3:30pm

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Latin America & Spain Film Festival: Margarita, That Sweet Chaos

Rafo, a divorcee living the bachelor life, gets a shake up with his 11-year-old daughter knocks on his door. Chaotic and funny, Rafo’s life is changed forever.

Sun 22 Oct 2017, 4:00–6:00pm

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Latin America & Spain Film Festival: Son of the Bride

Rafael, 42, is having a crisis. A minor heart attack reunites him with a childhood friend who helps him learn to look at the present in new ways.

Sat 28 Oct 2017, 11:00am–1:00pm

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Latin America & Spain Film Festival: Decent People

Ten-year-old Eric is living with his troubled father who he barely knows. He meets Maria who decides to take him under her wing.

Sat 28 Oct 2017, 2:00–3:30pm

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Latin America & Spain Film Festival: The Story of Me

A biopic based on storyteller Roberto Carlos Ramos, which follows him as a troubled teen, as he overcame his illiteracy and launched himself into a successful writing career.

Sat 28 Oct 2017, 4:00–6:00pm

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Latin America & Spain Film Festival: Cuba Libre

During The War of Independence of 1895, the Cuban liberation army, while exhausted, had almost achieved autonomy from Spanish colonial rule.

Sun 29 Oct 2017, 11:00am–1:00pm

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Latin America & Spain Film Festival: Miguel and William

Leonor is forced to leave London to marry a Spanish Duke, and leave behind her forlorn lover William Shakespeare. She befriends a promising author. When Shakespeare unexpectedly arrives in Spain she convinces them to work together.

Sun 29 Oct 2017, 2:00–4:00pm

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Kids Kapa Haka Performance

Watch Kapa Haka performed by tamariki (children) from Wellington schools and kindergartens who have been busy practising waiata-a-ringa, poi, and haka.

Thu 9 Nov 2017, 10:00–11:30am

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Talk: African textiles and art in NZ collections

Conservator Anne Peranteau will discuss some of the objects in Te Papa’s International History collections, focusing on African textiles encountered during an assessment of the collection.